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Submitted by Javelin on January 25, 2012 - 12:46pm.

Re:Confuse people in to believing you?
by Jeng (926980)

These people don't need drugs to believe in aliens, they need drugs to not believe in aliens.

This is taking advantage of the mentally ill.

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Submitted by coprenicuz on January 13, 2012 - 11:15am.

Re:It would be good to have optional GUI
by phrostie (121428)

there are 2 ways to look at this.
1. once again, Windows has copied Unix.
2. there is so much bloat that the GUI is the only place they can trim.

Flame on!
LOL

Submitted by veridicus on January 4, 2012 - 2:48pm.

I'll celebrate when usage of all versions of IE drops below 1 percent.

Re:No reason to celebrate now.
by Shikaku (1129753)

I'll celebrate when netcraft confirms it.

Re:No reason to celebrate now.
by nitehawk214 (222219)

An instance where Netcraft rightly should be confirming something. My head exploded.

Re:No reason to celebrate now.
by drobety (2429764)

An instance of someone able to write and post a message after his head exploded. This ... I don't ...

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Submitted by veridicus on January 3, 2012 - 10:09am.
And then there's social engineering

Well, yes. But that only works against idiots.

Re:If you don't know, you can't do it
by TheRealMindChild (743925)

Well, that doesn't say much for your family because it was rather easy to socially engineer you mom's pants off

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Submitted by ancientt on December 15, 2011 - 10:26am.

You have angered the Larry
by Megaweapon (25185)

Pray you do not anger Him further.

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Submitted by AceJohnny on December 13, 2011 - 2:30pm.

Re:No they can't
by LoyalOpposition (168041)

You can't prove a negative.

Why should I believe that you can't prove a negative?

~Loyal

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Submitted by mr100percent on December 11, 2011 - 12:46am.

Speaking as a road user not in a 4,000lb box....
by SuperBanana (662181)

Speaking as a road user who is not in a 4,000lb box - this is the last thing we need. Apps for your car? Seriously?

Hang up the phone.
Drink the coffee at your home/work/coffee shop.
Stop texting.
Stop picking out your favorite song on the playlist.

DRIVE. YOUR. CAR. Please. Your car is not an entertainment system, smartphone, web browser, etc. It's a powerful, heavy, moving object. Capable of inflicting life-altering or mortal injuries and enormous property damage, which must be piloted accurately to within less than a few feet at speeds humans were never designed to travel. Treat it as such, which means PAY ATTENTION and keep BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL and your EYES ON THE ROAD. Nowhere else, any time your vehicle is moving.

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Submitted by gogirra on December 9, 2011 - 11:16am.

Re:Question: Are these committments binding? I dou
by Bob9113 (14996)

Who does AT&T think they are fooling?

They think, and are correct, that they are fooling the people who believe that Fox News is fair and balanced.

This is a technique used regularly in controlling public opinion about policy. The further out you can pull one side of the argument, the further out you can pull the middle. This is a very effective approach, because so many people believe that justice means being reasonable, and that being reasonable means giving each side half of what they are asking for.

People are social animals and have a natural tendency to believe that both sides in a debate are being fair in their assessment and sincere about what they believe is just. They believe that each viewpoint must have merit. They believe, therefore, that any point roughly halfway between the two views must fall on reasonable ground. Trusting to this belief, they believe they do not have to know the details to know a fair solution. Any entity with a stake in public policy -- corporations, politicians, power-brokers -- knows about this mechanism. The big guys all have public relations people whose job is to manipulate this, and many other similar flaws.

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Submitted by veridicus on December 9, 2011 - 9:25am.

I have several.
by Anonymous Coward

And I'm guessing that the majority of folks here have at least one windows box.

I have several. The flowers love the sun and the heat from the house keeps them from perishing on those freak cold spring nights.

Oh, and I definitely ...
by Anonymous Coward

have root access to them.

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Submitted by Javelin on December 6, 2011 - 5:24pm.

Re:Strange animal
by rinoid (451982)

I see cleavage. Very odd for a book on HTML5.

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Submitted by speculatrix on December 3, 2011 - 5:15pm.

Michael Dell's story.
by grub (11606)

MICHAEL DELL
CEO and founder of Dell

From the time I was seven years old, I was captivated by blandness. When asked what kind of ice cream I wanted, the answer was always "Vanilla, please."

My favourite toy was an old sock that belonged to my grandfather. It was the most dull, lifeless white sock you had ever seen. I called it "Blandy". When I turned 13 my parents let me paint my room any colour I wanted. I picked a decidedly neutral beige paint. I didn't want any excitement in my room, just a calming dullness. My whole room was like that: beige walls, beige lampshades, beige bedding. The only contrast was when I would place Blandy on my pillow. My room was the ultimate in dull. Sitting in it was almost like floating in a sensory deprivation tank. Except you could see that glorious beige everywhere.

What are your memories of your first computer?

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Submitted by veridicus on November 28, 2011 - 9:54am.

Plenty of the more popular things posted on this site are polarizing. Look at some of the things that aren't polarizing...

If it's not AMOLED it'll be polarizing
by tepples (727027)

Except it's impossible to have an article about a new device with an LCD panel without it being polarizing, because polarizing is how LCDs work. In order for it not to be polarizing, it'd have to be AMOLED or something.

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Submitted by ancientt on November 23, 2011 - 8:14pm.

This has many potential applications
by hyades1 (1149581)

I sometimes suspect that my former marriage could have been successfully modeled as a predator/prey relationship.

Submitted by anupamsr on November 16, 2011 - 12:39am.

Re:More Specifically Aimed at Chinese Fur Farms
by DigiShaman (671371)

When you do shrooms, sometimes you feel larger than life. Herbs (flowers), PCP (star dust), Mario is doing some hardcore shit there! No wonder the goombahs and King Koopa are after his ass. They want payback. Drugs are expensive! If they can't get him, they'll at least hold peach for ransom. He's not the plumber you think he is. Neither is his brother.

Submitted by Javelin on November 7, 2011 - 2:37pm.

Re:Argument about Unity?
by discord5 (798235)

We all agree that it sucks. There is minor disagreement about the degree to which it sucks.

Remember when we had arguments about X being better than Y? I miss those days...

Does that really stop anyone from writing Linux applications?

I'm actually writing an application that makes Unity hate posts on slashdot. It works in Linux.

[Parent by Chonnawonga (1025364)]

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